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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (117520)10/23/2003 4:34:04 PM
From: Sam  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
amazon.com

Just in case you haven't read it.



To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (117520)10/23/2003 4:35:08 PM
From: Sultan  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
OT (however, you have mentioned this topic.. this is a slight variation to the theme that only poor and downtrodden are converting)

Where the Moors Held Sway, Allah Is Praised Again
By CRAIG S. SMITH

Published: October 21, 2003

GRANADA, Spain — Muslims are back in this ancient Moorish stronghold, the last bastion of Islam in Spain before the 15th-century emir Boabdil kissed King Ferdinand's hand and relinquished the city with a legendary sigh.

But the row of men kneeling in prayer at the city's new mosque, the first built here in more than 500 years, are not modern-day Moors; they are well-educated European converts.

nytimes.com